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About the Role

Fitch Ratings is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Engineering to lead its Innovation Tribe in Toronto, focusing on defining the future of AI-powered financial intelligence. This role involves leading transformative change, overseeing three pioneering engineering teams, and operating at the intersection of technology strategy and organizational leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Innovation Tribe with vision and accountability, owning strategic direction, execution, and culture.
• Set the technical vision for AI-driven platforms, agentic systems, and intelligent automation.
• Drive alignment between teams and the broader Ratings technology organization.
• Build, develop, and inspire exceptional people, leading, mentoring, and empowering team leads and engineers.
• Foster a culture of bold experimentation, engineering excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
• Attract and retain top engineering talent.
• Define the architectural direction for generative AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, intelligent automation, and ML systems in production.
• Evaluate transformative AI technologies versus hype.
• Turn proof-of-concepts into production capabilities that change how analysts work and how Fitch delivers insights.
• Oversee the design and delivery of net-new systems built without legacy constraints.
• Champion the freedom to experiment, fail fast, and push boundaries while ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Define and champion the future of software and ML delivery, embracing AI-augmented development lifecycles.
• Establish how teams use AI to build AI, leveraging AI-DLC principles and intelligent CI/CD.
• Influence at the highest levels of the organization, acting as a strategic partner to senior leadership.
• Represent the Innovation Tribe across the organization.
• Build credibility and trust through results, vision, and clear communication of complex concepts.
• Champion Toronto as Fitch's AI Innovation Hub, engaging with the local tech community.
• Help attract world-class talent to the mission.

Requirements

• 18+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering or machine learning engineering, with substantial time in senior technical leadership roles overseeing multiple teams and disciplines.
• Proven multi-team leadership experience, leading team leaders and managing engineers across diverse technical disciplines (software engineering and ML/AI engineering).
• Deep technical credibility with strong architectural command of modern software systems, cloud-native platforms, and/or AI/ML infrastructure at scale.
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale systems or ML platforms from scratch in greenfield and ambiguous environments.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, grow, and retain exceptional engineers and engineering leaders.
• Ability to partner with product, business, and senior leadership, translate technical vision for non-technical audiences, and build organizational trust.
• Genuine AI curiosity or expertise with the judgment to separate signal from noise.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.

Skills

• Generative AI
• LLMs
• RAG architectures
• Agentic systems
• Prompt engineering
• ML model development and evaluation
• MLOps
• Feature platforms
• Inference infrastructure
• Java/Springboot
• React
• AI-augmented development lifecycles
• AI-assisted code generation and review tooling
• Automated model evaluation pipelines
• Intelligent CI/CD practices
• Docker
• Kubernetes/EKS
• AWS/Azure
• Microservices architecture
• Model serving infrastructure
• Sophisticated deployment pipelines
• 0-to-1 initiatives
• Scaling greenfield products or ML platforms
• Building innovation-focused organizations
• Technical thought leadership
• Financial services domain knowledge
• Analytical workflows
• Credit ratings processes
• Regulatory environments

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior Director
• 18+ years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• PhD
• Equivalent demonstrated expertise

Salary/Compensations

• 250,000 CAD - 325,000 CAD

Benefits

• Executive visibility and strategic influence
• Direct access to senior leadership
• Platform to shape Fitch's AI strategy
• Ground-floor leadership opportunity
• Organizational backing
• Meaningful budget
• Freedom to experiment and take calculated risks
• Cutting-edge technology and continuous learning
• Training and conference budgets
• Career acceleration at scale
• High visibility to senior leaders
• Clear path to principal and executive roles
• Opportunity to establish oneself as a defining voice in AI-driven financial technology
• Collaborative, open culture
• Diversity of thought, background, and technical approach valued
• Commission earnings
• Discretionary bonuses
• Long-term incentives

About the Company

• Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries.
• Wholly owned by the Hearst Corporation, comprised of three main businesses: Fitch Ratings, Fitch Solutions, and Fitch Learning.
• Committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions.
• Employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest.

Equal Opportunity

• Fitch Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
• We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.